BEER BEATDOWN
Cops busted a man for allegedly stealing a beer from a W. Broadway bar on Sept. 26 and then beating a bartender with it.
An employee told police that he and another server at the watering hole between Grand and Broome Sts. spotted the suspect swipe a case of beer at 9:24 p.m.
The pair tracked the suspect down to Sullivan and Broome Sts., where they duked it out and managed to recover the majority of the stolen beer, with the exception of two bottles that the man managed to abscond with, cops said.
The workers then confronted the suspect a second time near Sixth Ave., according to police.
That’s when the alleged crook allegedly began wielding his ill-gotten beer as a weapon, beating one of the employees, leaving nasty gashes on his brow and cheeks, cops said.
TOO LATE
A man filed a report with cops on Sept. 29 stating his bike was stolen from a Greenwich St. parking garage — more than a year ago.
The victim told police he last saw his bike when he chained it up inside a parking garage between Hubert and N. Moore Sts. at 8 a.m. on May 1, 2015.
He first noticed it was missing in late May this year — four months before filing his report, cops said.
Investigators with the First Precinct have not made any arrests and consider the case closed, according to police.
BIKE BANDIT
Police are hunting the thief of a tricked-out, $1,400 Allezsport bike left locked on Reade St. on Sept. 27.
The victim told police he secured his bike with a U-lock to a rack between W. Broadway and Church St at 6:39 p.m., and returned the next day to find the lock busted and his bike stolen.
The victim reported the theft that day, and was able to provide investigators a receipt and serial number for the bike, cops said.
SNEAKER SNATCH
A shoplifter absconded with a $1,395 pair of sneakers from a Mercer Street boutique on Sept. 30.
An employee told police that the thief was spotted via surveillance feed inside the retailer between W. Houston and Prince Sts. at 1:45 p.m. when he grabbed the ritzy pair of Balenciaga Python Sneakers off a rack and fled without paying.
SMELLY STEAL
Cops are hunting a man wanted for allegedly ripping off a Broadway beauty supply store to the tune of $1,700 worth of designer fragrances on Sept. 27.
An employee told police that the crook was spotted on camera inside the store between Prince and Spring Sts at 6:10 p.m. when he grabbed 17 bottles of high-class perfume before running out the door and ducking into a nearby car.
STICKY-FINGERED THIEF
A pickpocket snatched a woman’s brand-new iPhone 7 from inside her bag while riding an escalator inside the Fulton St. subway station on Oct. 3.
The victim told police she was inside the transit station near Broadway at 8:45 a.m., when she was startled as someone bumped into her.
It was only later that the woman realized that a sticky-fingered thief had managed to unzip her bag and remove her phone in one deft motion, cops said.
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Thieves looted a box truck parked on Grand St. on Sept. 28, nabbing more than $1,100 worth of merchandise.
The victim told police that he left his truck near Wooster St. at 9:45 a.m., and returned 10 minutes later to find the pad lock securing the truck’s rear door had been snipped and the goods stolen, cops said.
CRACK AND FRISK
Cops busted an alleged crackhead after he was spotted nabbing goods off of sleeping straphangers on a train near the Whitehall Subway Station on Oct. 1.
The arresting officer reported he was on the train as it neared the station by South Street at 3:30 a.m., when he saw the suspect allegedly lean over a sleeping commuter and unzip his pouch and remove his phone.
The suspect then crept along the train into the next car, where he was arrested, cops said.
“I’m just waking people up,” the man allegedly wailed. “Someone gave me that phone.”
It was only after searching the man that patrolmen say they discovered a crack pipe in the suspect’s possession, according to police.
— Colin Mixson
